In the forward of one of the books the author mentions he quit his day job after the first book was a hit, so I can understand his financial need to churn out more books.
Unfortunately there is little plot advancement, perilous situations more contrived, and needless exposition/filler the norm.
That feels like the Honnor Harrington series to me. :-( I thoroughly enjoyed the first N books I read (5? 6?), but the next one or two seemed like watching a series TV show that never resolves tension points, because if they did there'd be no reason for Season N+1.
I read the first 100 pages of the first book and then literally threw it into a fire.
I believe the "Nope" sentence was something akin to "{character} thought that {thing} because {thing}."
Jesus Christ. Would it kill you a little to show instead of tell?
(And lest people believe I'm not a fan of some good * opera, I'm not ashamed to admit I've read my fair share of BattleTech, Barsoom, and even Lost Fleet, among less highbrow works)
It sticks in my memory because I remember being somewhat annoyed at the writing level hitherto, reading through that sentence, realizing what I'd just read a few sentences later, going back to double-check, then chucking the book.
And don't get me wrong, I've got space for some crappy writing in my sci-fi (looking at you, Foundation).
Thank you so much for saying this. I had no idea until I read your comment and immediately opened the view menu. I am blown away I didn’t know about this after over 10 years of using LO...
This is very cool! I’ve recently started using my wife’s old Kindle for reading the pfSense book and the Google SRE Handbook and have been loving the fact that it isn’t a bright screen or filled with distractions.
This is a great idea that I’ll be trying out with a couple technical blogs.
Awesome! Yeah I tested this out on my mom's old kindle (one with a keyboard) and it renders really well. Not the same as how it looks on the newer Kindles but they still have special support for the newspaper format on the old Kindles and it looks great.
Don’t forget that part of what’s wrapped into that premium is excellent support & warranty along with the development of firmware and Pop!_OS. It’s more than just the hardware. It’s ensuring you can rely on that hardware to work end to end.
I can’t agree with this enough. I’d love to hear more about how to accomplish what you’re asking in the current state of the fediverse. I’ve been reading into it but am not sure how to use my own instance as my “who I am” and “where I am from” while not allowing others to be from my “home” yet still safely connecting and conversing with others.
It’s marketed as easy, but once you start digging into the details, it quickly becomes more complex than I was expecting.
I’ve been looking into Mastadon, Pixelfed, and Matrix to use in this way, but it seems pointless since I don’t want to host my friends and family’s content, and they’re not going to sign up for some random odd sounding instance. I’m then left with an empty social network or communication tool that’s little more than a tech demo.
Inventing a currency out of thin air so they can mint as many dollars as they want and you and other geniuses can form a secondary market where all of you can trade it is the genius of brave and the point of this article.
Instead of paying you, they make their own currency and pay you. You can make some money off of it in the secondary market because some other idiot thinks it's worth actual money.
Yeah it is worth money. Similar to how heroin is worth money.
You know what else inarguably has monetary value? A perfect one to one copy of an american 100 dollar bill. This absolutely has monetary value and therefore you should buy it, just like how you should buy crypto.
No buddy this is called an analogy. Meaning some things are similar but other things are not. Through average human intuition and intelligence you can derive that I'm not comparing the physical nature of heroin to the abstract nature of crypto.
What I am comparing is the illegitimacy of heroin to the illegitimacy of the crypto issued by Brave. I am sorry that you were incapable of deducing this. But now with this simple explanation of the nature of an analogy you get it!
If a bank gives me a note that says this piece of paper represents the amount of money you have in the bank, this is not producing currency out of thin air.
If a company issues stock and says this piece of paper represents a percentage of the company, this is also not producing currency out of thin air.
If I print out american dollars that don't represent anything and start trading those dollars in the capital market then I will go to jail for counterfeiting. This is 100% producing currency out of thin air.
But wait, change that american dollar to crypto, then everything is legal. This is because crypto represents high technology and buzz wordy concepts. Everybody knows that buzzwords makes everything legal and right.
It's pretty hard to understand something that's wrong. So in a stock IPO the stock represents a proportion of the business. You're saying that those cryptos represent the company? If the company liquidates I can exchange the crypto for the liquidation proceeds? Yay or nay?
This is a "tech" site, no stupid people exist on a "tech" site because of the word "tech," so everything you say must be 100% correct and infallible. Makes sense.
